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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Tuesday, September 17, 1985

8-Down : Lap dog, for short

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,097
Across
1
Minutes of a meeting : ACTA
5
Trial run for a horse : PREP
9
Site of "a poem in marble" : AGRA
13
High time : NOON
14
___ space : OUTER
16
Slush : SLOP
17
National park in the Cascades : CRATERLAKE
19
Cloches : HATS
20
Coalition : ENTENTE
21
Otalgia : EARACHE
23
A French quarter note : NOIRE
25
John preceder : DEMI
26
Comprehend : SENSE
28
Wrongdoing : MISDEEDS
32
Julia Migenes-Johnson, e.g. : DIVA
33
Female herring : RAUN
35
___ in the bucket : ADROP
36
Août in Arles, e.g. : ETE
37
She wrote "Pentimento" : HELLMAN
39
Bonnet inhabitant? : BEE
40
Actress from Mexico : MARGO
42
Polo Grounds rookie in 1951 : MAYS
43
Rhine feeder : AARE
44
Saint-Saëns was one : ORGANIST
46
Middlecoff and Grant : CARYS
48
V.I.P. : LION
49
A special happening : EVENT
51
Queen of the Netherlands : BEATRIX
54
Parallels : ANALOGS
58
Bail : LADE
59
National park in Wyo. : GRANDTETON
61
Completed : OVER
62
Jack of old films : OAKIE
63
Portico for Plato : STOA
64
Actress Harper : TESS
65
Railroad center : YARD
66
Dance's partner : SONG
Down
1
Suffix with resist : ANCE
2
Shipment from Des Moines : CORN
3
Precisely : TOAT
4
TV attachment : ANTENNA
5
Curtain in a doorway : PORTIERE
6
Elizabeth II, e.g. : RULER
7
Letter from Crete : ETA
8
Lap dog, for short : PEKE
9
Feeling guilty : ASHAMED
10
National monument in Alaska : GLACIERBAY
11
He wrote "Goodbye Columbus" : ROTH
12
Church part : APSE
15
Interprets a part : READS
18
A son of Seth : ENOS
22
Sort of fort : REDAN
24
Rival : EMULATE
26
Instrument for Shankar : SITAR
27
National park in Fla. : EVERGLADES
29
Lennon's "___ Life" : INMY
30
Active people : DOERS
31
Graf ___ : SPEE
32
Populace: Comb. form : DEMO
34
Charity : ALMS
37
Maid of ___ : HONOR
38
Rose : ASCENDED
41
High overshoes : GAITERS
43
Naïve : ARTLESS
45
Architect Jones : INIGO
47
Med. course : ANAT
50
Norse race of gods : VANIR
51
Moral flaw : BLOT
52
Part of a roof : EAVE
53
Radiologist's item : XRAY
55
Graham of football : OTTO
56
Thug : GOON
57
Unexpected obstacle : SNAG
60
Woody vine of N.Z. : AKA

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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